Thursday, February 14, 2019

distracted living


“Lift up your eyes and look around;
they gather altogether, they come to you;” Isaiah 60:4a

arms cramped with plastic
bags of food for her kids,
a young mother trudges
through a driving painstorm,
soaked to her soul;
as the winter storm
roars into town, a
PTSDed vet huddles
in a doorway just across
from the shelter
that has no more beds;
at the bus stop, a
child stands off from
his classmates, with a look
that says, ‘will give everything
for a friend,’ but
we are too busy
looking down at our
devices
to notice

© 2019 Thom M. Shuman

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